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Originally Posted by HarryT
Dictionary lookup is one of those things which you can get on very happily without but, when you get it, you suddenly find that it's just amazingly useful. When I changed from a Sony to a CyBook I didn't think the dictionary would be any big deal, but then I bought a decent dictionary for the Gen3 and I suddenly found myself using it all the time. If you read 19th century books (as I do a lot) you come across all sorts of words that yes, you can guess the meaning of from their context, generally speaking, but it's so nice to be able to easily look up their exact meaning. Not only increases your vocabulary, but enrichens the reading experience too.
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I can see the value of a dictionary if you're a non-native English speaker (like Astra above). But for me, no way. If there was a dictionary, I wouldn't use it. When I read, I *read*. I'm immersed in the story, and it becomes like an internal movie to me. I would NOT stop and look up a word, ever. The reading just flows. And I would not even stop to mark words to look up later. That would kill, not enhance, my reading experience. I cannot imagine reading for pleasure any other way. Even if I had a dictionary in front of me while reading, I wouldn't touch it. Never have, never will.
I am curious if many people actually interrupt their reading to look up words. I've been a voracious reader since elementary school (almost 40 years) and have never done this.